A university administrator obtains a sample of the academic records of past and present scholarship athletes at the university. The administrator reports that no significant difference was found in the mean GPA (grade point average) for male and female scholarship athletes, with P-value = 0.287. This means

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if there really is no difference in mean GPA for male and female scholarship athletes, the probability of observing a difference in GPAs between male and female scholarship athletes as large as that observed in the sample is 0.287.

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the chance that a pair of randomly chosen male and female scholarship athletes would have a significant difference in GPAs is 0.287.

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the maximum difference in GPAs between male and female scholarship athletes is 0.287.

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the GPAs for male and female scholarship athletes are identical, except for 28.7% of the athletes.

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